News and Press Releases of DIW Berlin

Ukrainian refugees in Germany: participation is growing, but many hurdles remain

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0200

How are the many Ukrainians who have come to Germany since the start of the Russian war of aggression on February 24, 2022, faring? An answer comes from the “Longitudinal Study on Refugees from Ukraine in Germany (SUARE),” which has published a research report on the topic on 3 March, 2025. The ...

Marcel Fratzscher: „The next federal government needs courage and honesty“

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:47:00 +0200

Following yesterday's Bundestag elections, DIW President Marcel Fratzscher commented on the results and the challenges facing the new German government:

Germany‘s federal election marks a turning point. The Social Democrats are the biggest loser, and even though the Conservatives have emerged as the election winner, they have performed remarkably poorly. As a result, their coalition could struggle to push through a bold and urgently needed reform agenda. Economic decline, social polarization, and the continued rise of the rightwing extremist AfD would be the inevitable outcome.

The potential coalition partners should now put their feuds aside and get to work on the coalition agreement. In a world of escalating crises, Germany must finally break free from its political and economic paralysis.

A new federal government should set three major priorities. First, it must regain the lost trust and offer citizens and businesses a clear perspective for the future. The new government needs courage and honesty because the next four years will be tough for Germany and the most difficult of the last 75 years.

Above all, businesses in the industrial sector, but also citizens, will have to prepare for sacrifice and hardship. The transformation of the economy and society means change, and inevitably there will be losers. Secondly, the new government should prioritize an investment offensive, focusing both on infrastructure, innovation, and education, as well as defense. It should avoid dogmatic disputes and finance investments pragmatically through special assets, as a meaningful reform of the debt brake is likely impossible.

As a third priority, the new government must radically change its course on Europe. Germany will only be able to safeguard its own interests as part of a strong and united Europe. Germany must not continue to weaken Europe, as some parties called for during the election campaign. Instead, we need a primarily common European approach on defense, the internal market, innovation, and competitiveness.

Virginia Sondergeld has successfully defended her dissertation

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:39:00 +0200

Virginia Sondergeld, former Research Associate in the Public Economics department and the Research Group Gender Economics, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Women in management: Essays in Gender and Labor Economics” on January 31, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Peter Haan and ...

The Wave 1 Scientific Use File of the German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) is now available!

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:05:00 +0200

The Wave 1 Scientific Use File of the German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) is now available!

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:24:00 +0200

The SCP is a longitudinal study that captures multiple aspects of social cohesion in Germany. It is based on a representative population sample drawn from the German population registers and was carried out for the first time in 2021. The annual survey is directed not only at the selected individuals but also at all other adult household members. The SCP is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), led in cooperation by the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and implemented by the survey institute infas.

The SCP 2021/22 W1:

The dataset "German Social Cohesion Panel 2021/22 – Wave 1" (DOI: 10.60532/scp.2021_22.w1.v1) includes survey data and generated indicators of the first and second part of the first panel wave. It contains responses from 13,053 household anchor persons drawn from population registers and from 3,974 adult household members who were named by the anchor persons and subsequently interviewed.

Data Access:

The SCP can be ordered at the RISC Research Data Centre (RDC-RISC) by all post-doctoral researchers affiliated with a scientific institution. For that purpose, please set up a data user account at https://fgz-risc-data.de/en/registration if not yet done. You can use this account in the future to order all Scientific Use Files available at the RDC-RISC.

Account holders (primary users) may share the data with researchers under their supervision (secondary users). Secondary users must be listed in the primary user's data user account and must sign a privacy policy, which must be archived by the primary user.

We would like to point out that the data are provided for scientific use only.

Any Questions concerning our PhD Program?

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:56:00 +0200

Join our Open Info Hour! Are you considering applying to the DIW Graduate Center's structured PhD program? This is your chance to learn more about our program, ask questions, and connect directly with our team. Discover how you can benefit from excellent academic training, a vibrant research ...

“Social Report 2024” published: What are living conditions like in Germany?

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0200

“Social Report 2024” published: What are living conditions like in Germany? Publications use Socio-Economic Panel data The “Sozialbericht 2024,” produced in collaboration with the Socio-Economic Panel, is being presented today. It is published by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the ...

SOEP-Core Data 1984-2022 (v39) available now

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:07:00 +0200

All registered data users can order the latest data immediately via our online order form.In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder Important news for v39: New samples: With the refreshment sample R and the migration sample M8b, two new samples were added ...

SOEP-Core Data 1984-2022 (v39) available now

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:01:00 +0200

Applications are now open for the PhD Program intake of 2025

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:15:00 +0200

The application portal for the doctoral program of the DIW Graduate Center is now open! Graduates can apply until January 15, 2025 for the 2025 cohort (start: October 2025). The program offers structured doctoral training with a full scholarship in the first year and employment in a department in ...

Johannes Seebauer has successfully defended his dissertation

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:37:00 +0200

We congratulate Johannes Seebauer on successfully defending his dissertation on November 19, 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Shocks and the Labor Market: Five Empirical Essays in Economics’ and he was supervised by Carsten Schröder and Alexander Kritikos. We wish him much success and all the best ...

Jonas Hannane has successfully defended his dissertation

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:37:00 +0200

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Mats Kröger has successfully defended his dissertation

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:31:00 +0200

We congratulate Mats Kröger on successfully defending his dissertation on 26 September 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Does a fair transition reduce efficiency? Essays on the distributional effects of energy and climate policy’ and he was supervised by Karsten Neuhoff and Chloé Le-Coq. We wish ...

Jonas Hannane has successfully defended his dissertation

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Jonas Hannane has successfully defended his dissertation on October 8, 2024 at the Technische Universität Berlin. The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on the Economics of Digitization" was supervised by Professor Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin) and Professor ...

Graduation Ceremony 2024

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:13:00 +0200

On December 5, the Institute and DIW GC celebrated the graduation of 15 of our graduates with a festive ceremony. After an opening speech by Marcel Fratzscher and an inspiring speech by Prof. Dr. Nicolas Ziebarth, Helmut Lütkepohl was also bid farewell to his well-deserved retirement. The Executive ...

Kick-off for the 2024 PhD Cohort at DIW Berlin

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:13:00 +0200

We are excited to welcome the new 2024 cohort of PhD students, with some joining through the Berlin School of Economics (BSoE) and others directly through our program. All of them will conduct their research at DIW Berlin, marking the start of their academic journey with us. We wish them all the ...

SOEP-IS: Call for Submissions

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:39:00 +0200

The SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) is designed to enable innovative data collection for the research community. It is particularly well suited to establishing new and target-group-specific measurement instruments in long-term surveys, to conducting short- and long-term experiments, and to ...

SOEP-IS: Call for Submissions

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:26:00 +0200

Joint Economic Forecast Autumn 2024: German Economy in Transition - Weak Momentum, Low Potential Growth

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0200

The Joint Economic Forecast Project Group forecasts a 0.1% decline in Germany's gross domestic product in 2024. Looking further ahead, the institutes expect a weak recovery with growth of 0.8% (2025) and 1.3% (2026). Compared to the spring forecast, this represents a downward revision of 0.2 (2024) ...

SOEP at the DGPs Congress (Vienna, September 16-19, 2024)

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:52:00 +0200

The 53rd Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) and the 15th Conference of the Austrian Psychological Society (ÖGP) will be held jointly from September 16 to 19, 2024 at the University of Vienna, Austria, under the theme “Menschen, Mitwelt, Medien” - several SOEP employees will also be ...